July 2012
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I am angry →
redlightpolitics:
I am angry that I am to feel guilty when someone exercises violence over me. I am angry that I am supposed to defer to their “knowledge” and their “authoritative credentials” that I lack because those credentials are never assumed to mean that they inform and conform my subalternity. I am angry that I am to validate the knowledge that actively seeks to disempower me, when that...
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The personal IS political →
redlightpolitics:
As a feminist, I cannot simultaneously believe that “the personal is political” and that a white American terrorist murderer has “no political motive”. Everything we are and do is informed by our politics, while would mass murder be any different? the disdain for human life necessary to execute the crime IS political. The insistance that a white man acted in a vacuum causes me...
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“I’m thrilled with technology, the Enlightenment and feminism. But with all those...”
– Men Need to Rediscover the Don Draper Within - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
My favorite comments:
“Sexism and gender roles are alive and well even at the NYTimes. I hope this is not foreshadowing a dumbing down of this newspaper.”
“Modern men, at least here in Sweden, have more...
Tom Martin, leading UK Men’s Rights Activist:... →
lookoutsideyourself:
A prominent MRA, ladies and gentlemen.
AWESOME.
In China for the next two years! If y’all are at all interested in the education situation in rural China, check out my other blog.
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I think it's idiotic to categorize some cross...
otaku-sex-beast:
Or are we suddenly going to act as if we don’t understand what actual brown facing is? And the methods of terrorism and dehumanization that they’re primarily used for?
Online activists of justice - You’re forgetting what racism actually is at this point.
Holy fuck, people. Racism isn’t just calling someone of a different race a slur. Racism is the systematic...
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Charlie Sheen to Univision about his Latino roots:...
univisionnews:
This is what you call a memorable interview.
By ANGIE ROMERO Univision leading lady Maria Elena Salinas recently interviewed Charlie Sheen for Aqui y Ahora around his new show on Fox, Anger Management, and by the looks of it, the hard-partying actor still has some work to do in that department.
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Um…wow.
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On Kate Upton being called fat
I guess this is the end of the world. Right? We are there. Because the rage about Kate Upton’s appearance in a lingerie fashion show on a blog called SkinnyGossip (I will refrain from comparisions in said blog’s title, design and colour scheme to another blog we know) is possibly the craziest thing I’ve seen this year. So the apocalypse must be coming.
It’s 2012 and we’re media literate. ...
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More than $140 million dollars were spent by the... →
mmmightymightypeople:
so this is sorta my area of expertise—digital justice—and yes, i agree totally with this author that there’s some fucked up shit going on in the US with the complete lack of support for our media infrastructure—but I don’t think we can say “we need to do something” withOUT acknowledging that it’s not “lack of support”—but *complete deliberate withdrawal of resources* that...
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Katie Holmes v. Scientology
Katie Holmes announced she’d filed for divorce from Tom Cruise on June 29. Today is July 9. It took her all of 10 days to secure primary custody of No Longer Little Sci, secure a new home in New York, and secure public protection from the Church of Scientology.
Who are you Katie Holmes???
It’s now confirmed that Tom and Katie have reached a settlement. Her lawyer Jonathan Wolfe releasedthis...
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Bad History →
politicalprof:
So last week my dashboard was lit up with posts and reposts of the same claim: that economic inequality at the time the Declaration of Independence was signed was much less severe than it is today. “Aha!,” the posters seemed to scream: “we’re not living up to the Framers’ legacy!”
At which point my “bad history alarm” started to go off.
Folks, it’s possible that the income...
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Michael Fassbender Will Star in and Produce... →
WTF? This is like Katniss, all over again…talk about white-washing.
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“I truly truly truly want more PoCs to get acting roles in this franchise. But...”
– too much candy gonna rot your soul: “Catching Fire” and People of Color: How the racist casting of “The Hunger Games” is why we STILL can’t have nice things
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“The weight-loss industry is really the weight-anxiety industry and the basis of...”
– Weight Loss Myths - Andrew Dickson
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Politicalprof: So Who, Exactly, is Winning the... →
politicalprof:
Well, let’s think about it:
As I recall, the purpose of the “Drug War” and ancillary operations like the “Just Say No” campaign were intended to reduce the use of illegal drugs in the US. In part, this would be through an education process that sought to teach people the evils of illegal drugs, much as happened with tobacco use. The “war” would also contain a militarized...
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From One Skinny Girl To Others: A Few Words on Fat... →
blackgirldangerous:
by Mia McKenzie
I have often made the argument that white folks ought to talk to other white folks about racism and white privilege. As people of color, we get tired of having to always be the ones to talk about these things, always having to be responsible for other people’s education and understanding, when these issues are not our issues, but the issues of a whole country...
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First comes sex, then comes marriage? Love can... →
Uhh…no shit?
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Scientology Leader David Miscavige's Disappeared... →
In a statement to the Daily News, Scientology lawyer Gary Soter said Miscavige’s ex “is not missing. The claim is utterly ridiculous and unfounded.”
Note the word missing. No, it’s pretty plain that the church knows exactly where she is.
These people make me shit in my pants. Their whole SeaOrg thing, The Hole, the fact that they bullied the IRS into giving them charity...
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We're doing a ComicCon panel this year! Do you... →
racebending:
This year, Racebending.com will host our second annual diversity panel first thing Thursday morning. We’re honored to have the opportunity to again present at ComicCon. Be sure to check out Racebending.com: Creating Spaces for Diverse Characters and Representations in room 23ABC!
Racebending.com: Creating Spaces for Diverse Characters and Representations
Thursday July 12,...
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A Closet by Another Name →
Mr. Cooper’s gesture was a righteous and worthy one, and there’s little doubt that it will make this already hugely popular figure someone who “will inspire countless others,” as Herndon Graddick, the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, put it. But what may be even more revealing about his e-mail was its tormented rhetoric — the justifications and evasions that...
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